Dentistry’s Latest Great Satan
I’ve noticed a definite change in the flood of emails, blog posts and other content we dentists are inundated by daily. Over the last six months to a year there has been little if any mention of the...
White Coat Syndrome
Online, in lecture halls and in print, there are fanatical devotees of evidence based orthodontics whose shrill voices lament the absence of science in our profession. For proof and for comedic relief...
AAO/Gaidge Report – We Kinda Suck…
It’s amazing to me that we, as a profession, still don’t consider keeping braces on people beyond estimated treatment time a bad idea. It IS a terrible idea for many, many reasons – ...
It’s DTY not DIY
Do you do a CBCT on every ortho case you treat? Do you mount models for every case? Do you spend an hour in the new patient consult? Do you record periodontal probing for every tooth on every patient?...
AAO Conflict of Interest?
Since we wrote a couple pieces about KOL’s, what they say, why they say it and how you can learn about how much they are paid, this discussion has taken on a life of its own. If you’re not clear o...
Carriere Motion & MEAW – Birds of a Feather
The last couple weeks have been more interesting than usual. I attended the SAO in New Orleans – the first time I’d been to an AAO constituency meeting in a while – and was shocked b...
DIY Medicine?
Everyone agrees Telemedicine is a thing. It has been for several decades. The American Telemedicine Association was established in 1993 and the number of patients accessing real doctors via Telehealth...
Key Stressors in the Orthodontic Office
It shouldn’t be but practicing orthodontics and running an orthodontic business is generally considered very stressful by orthodontists. Conceiving, implementing and getting Smiley Face running wa...